• RV Life (I have the t-shirt). I spent a few months tearing apart my RV and installing routers, switches, computers, wifi antennas, and other geek tech. It was/is super fun. I used a speaker (?!) that was on the outside of the RV as an exhaust fan. The end game goal was/is to start working from the road indefinitely. Had to pivot all my thinking to DC power which I much prefer anyway.
  • I built a sacrificial raidz3 ZFS volume on an old NAS I had to see what would happen if spinning disks were exposed to the bumpy roads and other forces. To use non-spinning disks was simply not cost effective- not just because of the volume of data I have, but the cost of SSD not low enough to send magnetic disks into the past. Yet. Plus, SSD isn’t generally more reliable, it’s likely just more resistant to shock. I thought about how to go about this for a while and settled on these dense rubber squares aka “isolation pads” used for absorbing vibration from washing machines, compressors, etc. I mounted them on the bottom of the unit and went driving around looking for sink holes while it was on and doing stuff. I really thought this was just another stupid idea I had as this RV shakes and rumbles a lot while driving. (As of May 2025 no problems..yet?).
  • I had a friend install a pretty industrial looking LTE/5G/Wifi6+ antenna on the top of the RV and I installed an UPS, some gig switches, and a router running OpenWRT. I wish I was a little ahead of the curve on eSIM’s but the device I purchased for the cellular side of things had one eSIM and one physical sim (I’d have loved to just use eSIM’s exclusively.) I’d have probably tried to hack it all together with a Pi but time wasn’t on my side. Physical SIM’s, no thanks. So that runs the network that chooses the strongest cellular signal or best bandwidth via various scripts other folks contributed, fails over during an outage of either carrier (tmo/vz). While at home in the driveway with this beast I ran an old TPlink router in repeater mode and just use that inside the house. Goodbye, cable. Some tests have resulted in getting at least 1Gbps/sec using this setup (moving) which is plenty fine by me. Now, when you’re in an Alfalfa field in Kearney, Nebraska..
• I’m back working mostly on LLM’s as the heat of the Summer drives me back indoors. I’m also interested in using small edge models to take data inputs in with code and make inference based decision routing based on it’s training data. I guess I do a reverse commute considering much of the time I’m close to the beach or water.

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